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Erick Butler, Cody Hinkel and Luke Magness took different paths to the Thomas More Saints, but the former Henry County Wildcat teammates are playing football together again for the first time in four years.

Butler, a sophomore, played his first year at Thomas More after one year at Pikeville College. Butler left Pikeville after his freshman year and sat out a year before transferring to Thomas More.

Shelby and Sydney are seniors on the Lady Cats’ basketball team.
What are your hobbies?
Shelby: Going to the lake (Taylorsville) and going to UK football and basketball games.
Sydney: Hanging out with friends and going to the lake.
What about non-school activities?
Relay for Life team co-captains, New Castle 1st Baptist Church Youth Group, and Henry County Youth Coalition.
How about school clubs?
FBLA, FOR Club, KYA/KUNA, Pep Club, Beta, Student Council, National Honor Society and FCA.

The criticism of another’s position, the constant heated debate between family members filled with a heavy dose of vituperation has since dwindled into anemic soliloquies where no one listens but the speaker.

Don’t worry I ‘m not going to rant about my political position nor demand any reader to understand what I think sound public policy should look like.

Like many of the Henry County Middle School students who walked around the edge of the first lagoon at the Waste Water Treatment Plant in New Castle on Halloween, there are a few things I don’t think I’ll ever forget.

The tomato plants growing up through the rocks that line the lagoon’s edge is one indelible image.

The veritable sea of white, green, purple, blue and pink plastic tampon applicators, littered along the rocks is another. In one photograph I took, I counted more than 50. It was a little disturbing and unforgettable.

When I was growing up, we lived in a large old farmhouse with a nice open wrap-around porch.

I must have painted that house five times as a kid, because the weather boards were so old, paint would no longer stick, and years of accumulated paint would chip off between one summer and the next.

Of course, my father would rouse me out of bed early on Saturday, and we would get a good start on some painting project or other. He would often leave me alone to complete it, and then check my work when I was finished.

The Henry County Chamber of Commerce is constantly looking for ways to make our chamber an association that businesses, churches, non-profits and individuals can look to for not just information, but also for support of our communities.

A lot of Henry Countians are involved in corn and soybean production these days. To get things started off with the latest information, UK Cooperative Extension is holding early bird grain meetings for farmers across the state. The Central and Eastern Kentucky meeting will be from 1:30 to 4:30, Tuesday, Nov. 27, as a live-internet session in the Henry County Extension Office.